Bringing Up Father — buf371026

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie's familiar domestic sparring: Maggie instructs her husband to warn Mary the maid against wearing jewelry when guests arrive, fearing ridicule. Jiggs reluctantly relays the message — and Mary, entirely unruffled, replies that she owns nothing valuable anyway, thanking him for the warning. A question mark floats above Jiggs's head in the final panel. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His clean Art Nouveau line work — curved contours, patterned wallpaper, expressive silhouettes — refined the visual syntax that daily comic strips handed directly to the first comic books: recurring characters, sequential panel logic, and speech balloons as storytelling engine rather than ornament.